Wednesday 25 February 2009

Have you used Dynamed?

All Stockport NHS staff and students have access toDynaMed™:
http://cks.library.nhs.uk/dynamed is a clinical reference tool created by physicians for health care professionals for use primarily at the point of care.

Why Would I Use DynaMed?
• Improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs by using the “best available evidence” for clinical decision-making
• Quickly obtain pertinent information right at the point of care with computer and/or PDA access
• Keep abreast of the latest medical research with daily updates from DynaMed’s systematic literature surveillance

What Will I Find in DynaMed?
• Topic Summaries — More than 3,000 clinically-organized evidence-based topic summaries covering all aspects of care
• Detailed Reference Support — More than 100,000 journal article references and Web links are directly cited
• Daily Updates — Systematic surveillance of hundreds of medical journals and evidence-based sources provides the most up-to date, accurate information
• Patient Information — Access relevant supplemental content to help educate patients about their conditions
You can download this to a Blackberry - see link below for video on this:
http://support.ebscohost.com/training/flash_videos/blackberrydynamed/blackberrydynamed.htm

Tuesday 3 February 2009

FEBRUARY 2009


No snowy pictures available, so here's a serene picture of Swan Lake instead!

Monday 2 February 2009

New Books

The Library trys to keep its stock up to date and we welcome suggestions from people. We are taking any suggestions for the new financial year (April 2009). Here are a few of our recent purchases:





Obstetric anaesthesia by Paul Clyburn


Clinical case studies in physiotherapy : a guide for students and graduates by Lauren Jean Guthrie,




Test yourself atlas in ophthalmology
Kanski, Jack J

A Change Ahead

In the Darzi report, High Quality For All, (published June 2008), NICE was asked to establish NHS Evidence.

What is NHS Evidence?
NHS Evidence is a web-based service that will help people find, access and use high-quality clinical and non-clinical evidence and best practice. Built around a powerful search engine, the service will consolidate information from a wide range of sources in one central portal.
The
blueprint for NHS Evidence, outlining the strategic aims of the service, can be found on the NICE website.

How will it affect NLH?
NHS Evidence will build on existing services currently delivered by the National Library for Health. The existing services, collections and staff of NLH will be transfered into the new service.


When will NHS Evidence be available?
NHS Evidence will launch in April 2009. Additional functionality and content will be added in future versions of NHS Evidence

Radiology - the Journal



Coming soon to a computer near you ....

Access to this journal will be by username and password. Give us a ring to check on progress

New Titles from the Wiley Collection

Some of the journals we now have access to using your Athens password. They will be on the next update of the A-Z (in the meantime you can go direct to the journal)